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AC, 1, or not, that an action will lie for depriving a man of custom, that is, of possible contracts, as well when the result is effected by persuasion as when it is accomplished by fraud or force, if the harm is inflicted simply from malevolence and...Massachusetts Reports - Page 16by Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1899Full view - About this book

...Albee, 104 Mass. 88, supra. ' I regard it as settled in this Commonwealth,' said the learned judge, ' that an action will lie for depriving a man of custom,...justifiable cause, such as competition in trade.' See also Plant v. Woods, 57 NE Rep. 1011 (Mass.), in which the same doctrine is in effect laid down...